Hollywood is a neighborhood in Los Angeles known as the center of the American film industry. It originated in the 1880s when landowners named their ranch Hollywood. The first motion picture studio was built there in 1911. Over time, major film studios like Disney, Warner Bros., and Paramount emerged and turned Hollywood into the global film production hub that it is today. Some defining aspects of Hollywood include influential directors like Christopher Nolan, Steven Spielberg, and Quentin Tarantino, as well as the annual Academy Awards ceremony honoring achievements in film.
2. What is Hollywood
Hollywood is a neighborhood
in the central region of Los
Angeles, California. It is
notable for its place as the
home of
the entertainment industry,
including several of its
historic studios. It is also the
term used for the American
film industry and has
produced several notable
films.
3. The Origins of Hollywood
In 1886 Landowners Harvey & Daeida Henderson Wilcox name
their ranch Hollywood after Daeida met a woman in Ohio whose
country house was called “Hollywood” for the English holly and
woods.
In 1911 The first motion picture studio in Hollywood was built by
the Nestor Motion Picture Company on Sunset and Gower
corner. Nestor Studios merged one year later with Universal
Film Company.
Eventually this place evolved into the Hollywood we know today
and became a significant place in the history of film production.
4. Rise to success
The first film for motion photography was invented in 1885 by
George Eastman and William H. Walker, which contributed to
the advance of motion photography. Shortly thereafter, the
brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiere created a hand-cranked
machine called the cinematographe, which could both capture
pictures and project still frames in quick succession.
The 1900’s were a time of great advancement for film and
motion picture technology. Exploration into editing, backdrops,
and visual flow motivated aspiring filmmakers to push into new
creative territory. One of the earliest and most famous movies
created during this time was The Great Train Robbery, created
in 1903 by Edwin S. Porter.
Over time many film companies emerged such as warner bros,
paramount and of course our favourite, Disney.
5. The Big Six
1. Walt Disney
2. Warner Bros
3. 20th Century Fox
4. Universal Studios
5. Columbia Pictures
6. Paramount Pictures
6. Hollywood Film Industries
Walt Disney: Founded in 1926 Disney has evolved into the
second largest broadcasting company in the world and is
famous for the first animated clip with sound called steam
boat willy.
Warner Bros: the Warner's founded the Pittsburgh-based
Duquesne Amusement & Supply Company It started
distributing movies by 1912 and was involved in distributing
one of the most influential movie of all time called “The
Great Train Robbery” It also produces film, television and
music entertainment. As one of the major film studios, it is a
subsidiary of Time Warner.
20th Century Fox: It is one of the six major American film
studios. The studio is credited for distributing the movie
Avatar and Titanic. Both are one of the most highest
grossing films of all time.
7. Hollywood Film Industries
Universal Studios: It is an American Film studio and is one of
Hollywood's Big Six studios. Universal was founded in 1912 by the
German Carl Laemmle and is the worlds Forth oldest major Film
studio. Some of Its famous movies are Jaws, E.T, Jurassic Park,
Furious 7 and Jurassic World all of these movies broke box records.
Columbia Pictures: it is an American film
production and distribution studio of the Sony Pictures Motion
Picture Group. It is one of the members of the Big Six and used to
also be a member of the little three back in Hollywood's Golden
Age.
Paramount Pictures: It is a Film studio and also a member of the Big
Six. Paramount is the fifth oldest Studio in the world and America’s
oldest running studio being founded in 1912. By 2014 Paramount
Pictures has become the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all
of its Films in Digital form only.
9. Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan born 30 July 1970 is an English-American film
director, screenwriter, and producer. He has directed several of
the most acclaimed and commercially successful films of the
early 21st century. His nine films have grossed over US$4.2 billion
worldwide and garnered a total of 26 Oscar nominations and
seven awards. Nolan's films are rooted in
philosophical, sociological and ethical concepts, exploring
human morality, the construction of time, and the malleable
nature of memory and personal identity. His body of work is
permeated by metafictive elements, temporal shifts, solipsistic
perspectives, nonlinear storytelling and analogous relationships
between visual language and narrative elements. Nolan is
described as "one of the most innovative storytellers and image
makers at work in movies today", and he is often admired by
critics for integrating elements of art film into the blockbuster
format. He is famous for his Memento, The Prestige, Inception
and The Dark Knight Trilogy.
10. Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg born in December 18, 1946 is an
American director, producer and screenwriter. Spielberg is
considered as one of the founding pioneers of the New
Hollywood era, as well as being viewed as one of the most
popular and influential directors and producers in film history. In
a career spanning more than four decades, Spielberg's
films have covered many themes and genres. His other notable
films include Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the Indiana
Jones film series, and A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Spielberg won
the Academy Award for Best Director for Schindler's List (1993)
and Saving Private Ryan (1998). Three of Spielberg's films—
Jaws (1975), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and Jurassic
Park (1993)—achieved box office records, originated and
came to epitomize the blockbuster movie. The unadjusted
gross of all Spielberg-directed films exceeds $8.5 billion
worldwide. His personal net worth is estimated to be more than
$3 billion.
11. Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born in March 27, 1963 is an American film
director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. His films are characterized
by non-linear storylines, satirical subject matter, and an aestheticization of
violence, as well as features of neo-noir film. Tarantino grew up an
obsessed film fan and worked at Video Archives, a video rental store while
training to act. His career began in the late 1980s, when he wrote and
directed My Best Friend's Birthday, the screenplay of which formed the
basis for True Romance. In the early 1990s, he began his career as
an independent filmmaker with the release of Reservoir Dogs in 1992;
regarded as a classic and cult hit, it was called the "Greatest Independent
Film of All Time" by Empire. Its popularity was boosted by the release in
1994 of his second film, Pulp Fiction, a neo-noir crime film that became a
major critical and commercial success and judged the greatest film of the
past 25 years (1983–2008) by Entertainment Weekly. Tarantino's films have
garnered both critical and commercial success. He has received many
industry awards, including two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe
Awards, two BAFTA Awards and the Palme d'Or, and has been nominated
for an Emmy and a Grammy. He was named one of the 100 Most
Influential People in the World by Time in 2005. Filmmaker and
historian Peter Bogdanovich has called him "the single most influential
director of his generation".
12. Academy Awards
The Academy Awards most commonly known as Oscars, is an
annual American awards ceremony honoring achievements in the
film Industry. Winners are awarded with a statuette, officially the
Academy Award of Merit. Oscars are presented by the Academy of
Motion Picture, Arts and Sciences. The 1st Academy
Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences honored the best films of 1927 and 1928 and took
place on May 16, 1929, at a private dinner held at the Hollywood
Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, California. AMPAS president Douglas
Fairbanks hosted the show. Tickets cost five dollars, 270 people
attended the event and the presentation ceremony lasted fifteen
minutes. Now by 2015 the 87th Academy Awards has been held on
February 22, 2015, a total of 2947 Oscars have been Awarded since
the first at 1929.
